Lunch out and a swim

After more school work in the morning we headed off to view the sights around Point Samson. On the way we watched an Iron Ore train go past – 333 carriages!. This is a very new town and seems to have been built as an exclusive seaside area with new houses, new roads and a brand new caravan park (which will be fabulous in a couple of years when the trees grow up).
After Lunch at Moby’s (supposedly the best Fish and Chips on the west coast – but we’ve had better at S.P.) we spent the afternoon on a local beach – hoping to do some serious snorkeling - we were hampered by the cloudy water. Instead we wallowed around in the shallows of the beach – diving to collect the myriad of multicoloured rocks which lined the watery bottom of the cove.
The rocks here are an incredible maze of colours – thin lines of different types of layers all squashed together and then twisted by incredible forces sometime in the distance past.
A trip home via the ghost town of Cossak – which has been restored by funding from the North West Shelf venture create an eerie feeling with really old buildings being perfectly functional but not being used for anything. After we headed out to the local lookout for a view of the area - quite spectacular!

So we had great day – feeling relaxed (maybe a touch of sunstroke as we fell asleep on the beach) and ready for our long journey to Exmouth tomorrow.